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Cr Johnston criticises the LNP for failing to speak up on this. In her speech she emphasises how residents will have to travel many kilometres further for school. It puts pressure to drive kids to school and disconnects them from their community.
There are a lot of new councillors here and some of them may be forgiven for thinking “well this is just part of the Olympics bid”. No. It. Is. Not. It was never part of our formal bid to the IOC. It is not part of the Brisbane 2032 Olympics pitch. And the IOC themselves have said that the new model for the Olympics…this is about reusing infrastructure and this is about being smarter. It’s the new bid model. And stupid me, I’m the stupid one here, I believed them.
She says this is one of the worst mistakes the Palaszczuk Government has made.
She also says it will overstimulate the construction market and put pressure onto smaller construction projects.
Cr Johnston also reiterates that the federal government and the AOC do not believe this is necessary. But she says the cricket and AFL people are also angry because they’ll be 7 years without their venue.
The Deputy Mayor uses it as an opportunity to point out that the Greens and Labor are not in agreement and therefore a coalition Council between them after the next election would be chaotic.
Weird how both the ways in which they are supposedly in lockstep and the ways in which they have disagreements are supposedly reasons to be opposed to the Greens and Labor, according to the LNP.
Cr Massey points out that the LNP said they don’t support the notion purely because “it’s a state government initiative”. The LNP refused to make any statement about whether they support the redevelopment itself.
She also points out that there is no coalition. “There’s only one Coalition here, and it’s the Liberal National Party.”
